Word

יָעַד

yâʻad · H3259 · Hebrew · 29 occurrences

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Meanings

to be set, to be placed, to be directed

Process by which an object is placed in a certain location or in a certain posture

Examples
Jeremiah 24:1 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and metalworkers from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me: behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the LORD.
Ezekiel 21:16 “Prove yourself sharp, go to the right; set yourself; go to the left, wherever your edge is ordered.
to designate, to fix, to appoint

Literally: to set; hence: action by which humans make a certain decision regarding something

Examples
Exodus 21:8 “If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people, because of his unfairness to her.
Exodus 21:9 “And if he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.
2 Samuel 20:5 So Amasa went to summon the men of Judah, but he was delayed longer than the set time which he had designated for him.
to meet, to gather, to assemble

Action by which two or more parties come together in a certain place for a particular purpose

Examples
Exodus 25:22 “There I will meet with you; and from above the atoning cover, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about every commandment that I will give you for the sons of Israel.
Exodus 29:42 “It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the doorway of the tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there.
Exodus 29:43 “I will meet there with the sons of Israel, and it shall be consecrated by My glory.
to summon

Causative action by which someone orders someone else to come to a certain location

Examples
Job 9:19 “If it is a matter of power, behold, He is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?
Jeremiah 49:19 “Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thicket of the Jordan to a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will chase him away from it, and I will appoint over it whoever is chosen. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand against Me?”
Jeremiah 50:44 “Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thicket of the Jordan to a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will chase them away from it, and I will appoint over it whoever is chosen. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand against Me?”

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

29 occurrences in 11 groups

Not stated: I 6
Not stated: he, she or it 5
Not stated (participle) 5
מִיwho? 3
Other words · 7 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

8 occurrences in 3 groups

הָher 4
נִיme 3
וֹhim 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

19 occurrences in 17 groups

לto/for+ ךָּyou 3
Other words · 16 groups that occur once or twice (21) 21

With adverbsAdverbs

9 occurrences in 2 groups

שָׁםthere 7
יַחַדtogether 2

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 1 groups

עֵדָהcongregation, community 3

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 2 groups

עֵדָהcongregation, community 1
אַתָּהyou 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words

קָהַל qâhal · H6950 · to gather together, to assemble, to gather: יָעַד (yâʻad, H3259) has a very broad range, with senses spanning appointment, betrothal, meeting and assembly, while קָהַל (qâhal, H6950) is narrower, focused on assembling and gathering; both include "gather" and "assemble," in which they overlap.
אָסַף ʼâçaph · H622 · to gather, to be assembled, to assemble: יָעַד (yâʻad, H3259) centers on appointment/meeting/agreement with gathering as one manifestation (often reflexive "gather selves"), while אָסַף (ʼâçaph, H622) is a broad, high-frequency gathering/collecting verb spanning physical assembly, retrieval, and destruction.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Space002002001017: יָעַד describes meeting at an appointed place, as the LORD promises to 'meet' Israel above the ark's atoning cover (Exodus 25:22; 29:42).
Think002004002013: יָעַד can describe agreeing or designating something in one's mind, setting a plan or intention for a future arrangement.
Gather002003002013: יָעַד also describes assembling or gathering together at a set time or place, the ordinary sense behind Israel's 'tent of meeting.'

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

יָעַדyâʻad · H3259מוֹעֵד môwʻêd · H4150 · meeting, assembly · 223×מוֹעָד môwʻâd · H4151 · battallion · 1×מוּעָדָה mûwʻâdâh · H4152 · designation · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3259. yaad יָעַד verb appoint (Late Hebrew id., appoint, assign, especially of acquiring…

H3259. yaad
יָעַד verb appoint (Late Hebrew id., appoint, assign, especially of acquiring or designating as wife; Aramaic id.; Arabic promise, threaten, predict, III. appoint a time or place; perhaps Assyrian ¹du, decide, M-A17 DlHWB 230; Phoenician proper name אשמניעד) —
Qal Perfect suffix יְעָדוֺ 2Sa 20:5; יְעָדָהּ Exo 21:8 Exo 21:2t.; Imperfect3masculine suffix יִיעָדֶנָּה Exo 21:9; — appoint, a time 2Sa 20:5; place Jer 47:7; a rod Mic 6:9; assign or designate as concubine Exo 21:8-9, (JE).
Niph`al Perfect נוֺעַדְתִּי Exo 25:22; נִעַדְתִּי Exo 29:43; plural נוֺעֲדוּ Psa 48:5; Num 10:3-4, נוֺעָ֑דוּ Amo 3:3; Imperfect אִוָּעֵד Exo 29:42 Exo 29:3t.; 3 plural וַיִּוָּעֲדוּ Jos 11:5; Job 2:11; Job 2:1plural נִוָּעֵד Neh 6:10; וְנִוָּעֲדָה Neh 6:2; Participle plural נוֺעָדִים Num 14:35 Num 14:3t.; נֹעָדִים Num 16:11; —
1 reflexive, meet at an appointed place, with לְ, of Yahweh meeting Moses at the Tent of 'Meeting' Exo 29:42-43, Exo 30:36 (P); at the throne of the Kapporeth Exo 25:22; Exo 30:6; Numbers 17:19 (P).
2 meet by appointment Amo 3:3; Job 2:11; with בְּ of place, Neh 6:2; אֶל of place Neh 6:10.
3 gather, assemble by appointment, kings for a campaign (absolute) Jos 11:5 (D), Psa 48:5; with אֶל, unto Moses Num 10:4 (P); to the door of the tent of meeting Num 10:3 (P); with עַל, unto Solomon 1Ki 8:5 2Ch 5:6; against Yahweh Num 14:35; Num 16:11; Num 27:3 (P).
Po`el Perfect1singular יוֺעַדְתִּי (for יוֺדַעְתִּי ᵑ0) 1Sa 21:3 followed by accusative of person + אֶל of place, according to ᵐ5 We Dr Kit Bu.
Hiph`il Imperfect יוֺעִדֶנִּי מִי Jer 50:44 = יֹעִידֶנִּי מִי Jer 49:19 = יוֺעִידֵנִי מִי Job 9:19 who will make me meet him at the appointed place (of judgement)? i.e. who will summon or arraign me?
Hoph`al Participle לִפְנֵי מוּעָדִים Jer 24:1 be set, placed before; מֻעָדוֺת פָנַיִךְ אָנָה Eze 21:21 whither thy face is set.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Space2 occurrences Gather22 occurrences Think5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0